A.Word.A.Day--ticky-tacky

2. Marked by a mediocre uniformity of appearance or style. Tawdry; tacky.

[Reduplication of tacky.]

"And while the actress does not receive entrance applause when she walks
onto the wonderfully ticky-tacky hotel-room set in the Vineyard Theater,
it's not hard to envision a future stage appearance when that might
change."
Peter Marks, 'The Batting Cage': Veanne Cox Takes Comic Lead,
New York Times, 18 Nov 1997

This week's theme: reduplicatives.

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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after
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